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the order of Jain monks at the age of seven and came to be known as Somasundara. Jayanandasūri of Tapagatchha was his guru or preceptor."
Somasundara was an intelligent pupil; so he mastered the sciences within a few years and came to be known as Upadhyaya or Vachaka in A. D. 1393-4 72 By this time, he had earned name and fame as a scholar and was, therefore, given a rousing reception by the ministers Ramadera and Chunda when he Devakulapātaka (or Devagiri ),”3
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In A D. 1400-01, the dignity of Acharya or Doctor was conferred on Somasundarasūri by Devasundarasūri in Anabilavāda. To celebrate this occasion, Narasimha Seth held a festival Thus Somasundarasŭm became the head of Tapagatchha, at the age of twenty-seven."
In Vadanagara, there were three wealthy Jain brothers named Devaraja, Hemarsja and Ghatasimha When Somasundarasuri conferred the dignity of Upadhyaya on Munisundara, Devaraja held a festival with the consent of
(71) Somasări, SomaSaubhagyalāvya, cantos II, III, IV (72) Ibid, V, 118 14
(73) Desai, Jaın Sahityano Itɩhãs, p. 452. (74) Somastri, Somasaubhagyaluvya, V, 51-61.
